OK Simfan and DC, here's the gist I'm getting from what you say: You can't be a liberal Christian.
Because of course I wouldn't go to a conservative church. The same way all those conservative evangelical types obviously don't go to progressive SJW churches either. Is any of that surprising?
But was far as being an extension of my subculture, if that was true then I'd be an atheist. After all the composition of the scene is probably like:
50% atheist/agnostic
25% "spiritual but not religious"
25% Christian
(with of course less than 1% being Catholic or specifically tied to any type of traditional or very well defined church obviously.)
However here is something that I find incomprehenisible, and that's that someone is more sincere if they just stick in whatever they were raised in and continue on inertia. I mean there's the reason the term "zeal of a convert" exists. Common sense kind of dictates that if you have a church where basically everyone there is a convert because it's so new no one could be raised in it such people would probably be more sincere than any traditionalist one with ethnic connotations and all that. Especially considering the high amount who convert from the latter to the former...the video isn't up anymore but there used to be one on my church's website with various people who were about to be baptized giving testimonials, and some girl talked about how she was raised Catholic and after being confirmed her parents agreed to let her make the choice to keep going to church or stop, and she chose to stop. But then after college she realized how much love God had for her and how she became changed by Jesus Christ and all that talk. Now it's hard to argue someone like that is not sincere, but someone who clings to whatever religion is affiliated with their upbringing and ethnicity out of habit is. And in a sense there is a similarity to my subculture there: You can't ever say people in the scene aren't sincere or dedicated about things. And I think that's were the correlation comes from, since they don't really halfass ANYTHING if anyone's a Christian it's not going to be on sheer intertia and habit.
I don't think you get it. The point is rather that for you religion is like wearing a band t-shirt. The way you treat it makes it clear that there is no spirituality or philosophical depth or anything to it. Sure, that may be true for some brainwashed conservative Christians as well. But that doesn't make you any better than them.
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